Secondary Research.

My Topic - Internet Predators.

An American study conducted by The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children funded a study by the Crimes Against Children Research Center in 2006 of youth Internet users over a five-year period. They found:

• An increase in encountering unwanted exposures to sexual material (from 25% to 34%).
• An increase in cases of online harassment (from 6% to 9%).
• A decrease in those receiving unwanted sexual solicitations (from 19% to 13%).
• 40% of all youth Internet users said online solicitors asked them for nude or sexually explicit photographs of themselves.
• Only a minority of youth who had unwanted sexual solicitations, unwanted exposures to sexual material, or harassment said they were distressed by the incidents.
• One-third of the solicitations (31%) were aggressive, meaning the solicitors made, or attempted, offline contact with youth.

I found these statistics at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_predator.

Organizations such as CEOP highlight the issues of anonymity on-line and the effects of this. The CEOP website has many videos and documentaries of real life stories of victims of cyber bullying and internet predators. 
You can read more into the organization and find videos linked to these topics at - http://ceop.police.uk/.

Research into Social Realist genre.

I first decided to watch several social realist film trailers in order to gain a better understanding of their forms and conventions.

Here, is the film trailer for ''Trainspotting'' a 1996 social realist film directed by Danny Boyle about the lives of heroin addicts in Edinburgh.

 

This is the film trailer for ''Fish Tank'' a 2009 film directed by Andrea Arnold, about a 15 year old girl, growing up in a council estate and having to deal with her mothers string of boyfriends.

 

And this is the film trailer for ''Junkhearts'' a 2011 film directed by Tinge Krishnan about the relationship between an ex-soldier named Frank and a young single mother who immerses herself in the party scene.

 

 

All three of these films highlight topical issues happening in society today. Trainspotting gained fame for it's soundtrack, which resinated heavily with the youth at the time. I feel that this would help for my film too, as I wish to appeal to a younger audience and so should cater to their music tastes.